Months pass, and Dawn attempts to summon Alex forth from whatever dimension he was lost in, but gets pulled in instead. The next day, Dawn returns, clad in a archaic emerald gown. The gang is relieved until the realize that now Lexa has vanished, apparently having taken her place. Unwilling to risk any further losses, Dawn gathers the group together and they go to personally retrieve their lost friends. They enter the hellworld of Hyperborea, ruled by the demon sorceress Akivasha. Dawn spent several months there (time moves much more swiftly there), and became the ruler-protector of the one human kingdom left in the land, and is known here as the Emeral Sorceress.
She informs the gang that something about this place dramatically increases their own supernatural powers at the cost of becoming closer to the source of their power. Alex is apparently a prisioner in Akivasha's gladiator pits, and it seems both he and Dante have moved from Totem Warriors to full-on lycanthropes. Dawn's mystical prowess is greatly increased, and they sound discover Lexa has become a feral predator but still gifted with full human intellect, stalking the woods between the two kingdoms, killing any demons she finds. With the help of the human kingdom, the gang finds Lexa, frees Alex, and confronts Akivasha and eventually brings the demon empire crashing down, before returning home to Earth.
Back on Earth, Alex and Lexa have to readjust to life as normal humans. Jessica returns upon learning of Alex's survival, where he confesses to her that he was somehow bound with a demonic essence while in the gladiator pits. During all this, Lexa also learns that her mother may have survived the plane crash that killed her, when one twisted mage mistakes Lexa for her mother during a vacation in Las Vegas. Exactly how and why eludes the group and their myriad contacts. Even Jack's "dad" can't seem to access any information on her.
The quest to learn more leads them to infiltrate a high-class white slavery ring in Poland. Lexa poses as a slave to be sold by Dawn and Matt, themselves posing as a wealthy and all-too-kinky married couple, while Alex tries to infiltrate the mansion it operates out of. Dawn succumbs to a flashback of her brief "godhood" as a Goa'uld and she takes advantage not only of Lexa, but the feelings Matt has long harbored for her silently. On the way out, Lexa sees her uncle Warren there, and knocks him out, as well as killing one of the two brothers in charge of the operation. Alex liberates one of the slaves, a young Russian woman named Serina, and she joins the gang for a while.
Dante, Lexa, Dawn, and Matt are all forced to confront their feelings because of this incident. Dawn patches things up with Dante and Lexa. Matt goes off and has a spell cast to remove his love for Dawn, which misfires, removing Dawn's love for Dante and Lexa instead. Dawn finds Matt and makes amends to him, which winds up with them in bed together, as lovers. Nyarlathotep casts off his Djinn disguise and assaults Dante with visions of what transpired between them, driving him into a killing fury, and almost insane. Matt gets the spell revoked, but the damage is already done.
Lexa manages to restrain Dante and reach him despite the visions tormenting him that only he can see. Realizing that all this jealousy and repression can be used as a wedge to drive them all apart, she broaches the idea that just because someone can love another person, it does not necessarily follow that the feelings for others are somehow less. A kind of open relationship is established among the group, and though there is still some tension, Gnarley is denied a powerful weapon to use against them.
The gang makes another trip to Atlantis, to assist in some more occult research. Alex uncovers a manufacturing center in the bowels of the city, while the others help in dealing with a Wraith incursion. Lexa is hit with a Wraith stunner, and while recovering, its discovered that she and Dawn are both pregant. Lexa, having apparently gotten so just after their return from Hyperborea, and Dawn two months later from her tryst with Matt while under the influence of the spell that broke up the Trinity.
Things get really fun when Kei arrives on the scene, shortly thereafter, putting Lexa's newfound theory to its truest test as the gang is called upon to try and prove Lex Luthor's innocence in a case of corporate espionage and murder. The two Slayers put aside their differences and come exceedingly close over the course of the case, which pleases Dante immensely. With the death of her parents in the Tokyo tsunami disaster, Kei accepts Lexa's invitation to move in with them, and she joins the gang on a permanent basis.
While clearing Lex, Lexa meets a young woman named Julia Delaney. A necromancer by trade, she was hired by TemCo, the company behind the framing of Lex. She helps the gang stop their scheme. While getting to know each other afterwards, its discovered that Julia had been hired when she was 18 by some people claiming to belong to a shadowy government agency. They gave her access to a powerful mystical artifact to use to raise a woman who had been killed in a plane crash ten years ago. She was never told why, but they paid her a million dollars for her services, and at 18, she didn't want to ask too many questions. However, the date and location of the accident site match the accident that killed Lexa's parents. When finally presented with the grizzly details of their demise, Dante realized that the accident also claimed the life of his parents: the plane had crashed into a highway, wrecking two cars and killing their passengers. His family had been in one of them.
Quick on the heel of these revelations, Serina is called to be a Wolf Totem Warrior, and the Dweller makes his bid to free himself. He removes Jessica's soul and she suddenly becomes a double-agent, turning on the group. She gives up the three Totem Warriors to him, to complete the ritual to free himself. Lexa, Dawn, and Matt manage to reach them in time, and Jessica is captured and her soul restored before any permanent damage can be done. Shortly thereafter, he does succeed in freeing himself and unleashing the Coldbringer, even without the blood sacrifice. Alex has long held onto a ritual to destroy the Coldbringer, but its casting it requires the sorcerer to freely give his life. Alex goes to do it, but Jessica tasers him and takes the scroll. She bravely sacrifices herself to destroy the Dweller and the Coldbringer, her one and only act as a Champion. Alex sinks into a deep depression afterward.
Things don't stay quiet for long, though. Someone places a hit on Lexa, and soon the gang is under siege from all corners. The original warning implies that the Black Widow, the woman believe to be Lexa's mother, has taken the hit. Things are soon disproven when several assassins are killed mysteriously before they can do any harm. Lexa goes out looking for her mother, but all she gets is a distant voice telling her that she's a fool for thinking she'd kill her. The assassins were hired by the surviving brother of the Polish slavery ring who managed to figure out who his intruders were. The gang gets the assassins off their backs and go on a hunt for the money-man.
They succeed in taking him out but also taking from him a mysterious tome of prophecy, and a magical weapon capable of permanently removing all supernatural power from a being. The Black Widow reappears again, taking the weapon from Alex and disappearing as swiftly as she came. The book is difficult to translate as every page is in some kind of code and it doesn't take Dawn and Alex long to realize every page has a different cypher key. What little they can interpret implies describes a woman much like Dahia as being a central figure of some kind of apocalypse, though her role can't be defined for good or ill.
Nyarlathotep returns, having apparently allied himself with the First and steps up his plans to free himself. He imprisons Buffy Summers in a twisted Asylum of her own creation to lure Dawn and her unborn child into a death trap to kill them. Apparently a prophecy exists that a child born of the Key and an Ancient would destroy him. Dawn manages to reach her sister and the two of them defeat Gnarley at his own game, driving him from this plane, at least temporarily. Upon returning to Earth, Lexa and Dante decide to finally tie the knot. With a little impromptu help from Lex, a wedding is put together, which sees not only the union of Dante and Lexa, but Dawn and Matt, and even Buffy and Angel.
LuthorCorp buys out one of the old lumber plants in Grizzly Peak and converts it into an agricultural laboratory. In reality, Lionel Luthor, who took control of LuthorCorp back while Lex was under investigation, has set up a kryptonite research facility away from Smallville. This will come into play between Seasons 2 and 3.
Preparing the final moves of his endgame , Gnarly unleashes his "angels"; demonic twisted things that launch a concerted attack against Earth's champions. Many die in the initial assault, but Clark and the gang survive. Serina and Buffy are believed killed along with some of the others, but it is revealed that they have been captured by a man known only as "E", someone who has been sending Alex letters and email all season, taunting him over the deaths of his family and descendants. "E" kills Serina and lures Alex into a trap to destroy him using an artifact that can drain a persons mystical energy and tranfer it to its wielder. Alex prevails, and frees Buffy, only to find that she has been rendered powerless. She and Angel, now both plain old humans, retire from the field and adopt new lives away from all this.
Matt goes off to face the demon trials, in an attempt to win a second chance at life for Serina. He succeeds, but her brush with death has dissuaded her from the lifestyle of a champion, and she goes off to find her place in the world. Jack, depressed by her departure, decides to go back to his old lifestyle, and request to join the Atlantis expedition as an advisor to Lt. Co. Sheppard. The gang heads to Atlantis one more time, to try and convince Jack to return. While there, they discover that Gnarley's prison isn't on Earth at all, but actually a long-lost Ancient colony in the Pegasus galaxy, where some of the more mystically inclined accidentally unleashed him. The survivors died binding him into the walls of the city, where he's languished for almost ten thousand years. The group is trapped in the city with him briefly, but manage to escape. They decide to remain on Atlantis until the children are born, since the city's shield somehow blocks the Outer God from entering their minds as he can back on Earth. Lexa's child is born first, and the gang returns to Earth, leaving Matt and Dawn to await their own birth. Lexa names her daughter Jessica Serina Pearce after their two lost friends.
While there, the gang persuades Dr. Weir to send the Daedelus to investigate the ruins of Krypton over in the Kailium galaxy, which yields some interesting facts about the death of Clark's homeworld, though they are careful to keep Clark's secret hidden. The government still realizes the destroyed world is somehow connected to the meteor shower that ravaged the town of Smallville years ago, and sends in a cleanup team to recover as much from the area as possible. The government also issues a cease-and-desist order to LuthorCorp, demanding they turn over all their samples immediately, due to a severe biohazard risk. Lionel only pretends to cooperate, leaving the Grizzly Peak plant operational.
While they were gone, Gnarly, with the help of the First, does begin to free himself, by manipulating a cult of his worshippers into capturing a Slayer and draining her power in a ritual to let the cultists summon him forth. The gang, along with Clark, Wesley, and Illyria, show up a little too late to stop his summoning. Lexa uses the Scythe to fight off its angels, and free the Slayer from its machine, while Illyria goads Gnarley into trying to suck dry what power she has left. Taking the bait, Illyria instead forces Nyarlathotep to link himself to her while Wesley uses the device he once used to drain off some of Illyria's might. The trap succeds and Gnarley is reduced to a single mortal body with much of his power lost. Illyria, who was also sucking away at Gnarley's power, re-ascends to her former existence, but not before giving Wesley a quiet assurance that she will leave Earth in peace. When the dust settles, the naked husk of the young woman she took as her shell is laying on the ground. Without a word, Wesley gathers up the fallen Fred and walks off, neither are seen again. Gnarly is saved from death only by one of his "angels" swooping down and carrying him away before Lexa can decapitate him.
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